The cold and wet conditions meant that most teams limited their running in Thursday evening’s 1hr45min session ahead of Saturday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener, which is expected to be dry.
Albuquerque set the quickest time at the wheel of the #10 WTR Acura of 1m48.730s with 38 minutes remaining, going 0.733s quicker than the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R of reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou.
Tom Blomqvist had put the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura on top early on, but the Anglo-Swedish driver’s effort of 1m49.583s still proved good enough for third place.
Fourth overall was the best of the LMP2 runners, with ex-Formula 2 driver Luca Ghiotto leaving it late to post the quickest time in the class of 1m49.597s aboard the #69 G-Drive Racing by APR Oreca.
That was enough to beat the Tower Motorsport Oreca of Rui Andrade by over two seconds, while another IndyCar star, Patricio O’Ward, was third in class aboard the #81 DragonSpeed entry.
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